PERIPETEIA
JOHN AKOMFRAH OBE
UK, 2012
EDITED ON FINAL CUT
20mins DRAMA
A SMOKING DOGS FILMS PRODUCTION
IN ASSOCIATION WITH CARROLL/FLETCHER AND THE EUROPEAN CULTURAL FOUNDATION
Peripeteia takes as its starting point two drawings by the sixteenth century artist Albrecht Dürer. The portraits are among the earliest Western representations of black people, their existence now "lost to the winds of history".
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